The Technocrat - Whole No. 158 - June 1951

The TECH NOCRAT

PUBLICATION OF TECHNOCRACY INC. • LOS ANGELES • CALIFORNIA

JUNE 1951

Technocracy Is Unique

TECHNOCRACY and its program are unique in
approach to and analysis of our outmoded social
mechanism. Technocracy Inc. is the only organi-
zation in existence that has a scientifically formulated
design for a social mechanism that can succeed and
replace the Price System and actually measure up to
the physical and technical requirements of this Conti-
nental Area. Technocracy makes no compromise with
the Price System. Technocracy makes no compro-
mise at all, for compromise in any direction whatso-
ever would defeat the purpose of Technocracy. Tech-
nocracy has the only answer to the social problems of
North America, as correct as scientific methods and
scientific knowledge circa 1951 make it possible to
be. Therefore, any deviation or compromise would
serve only to depart from and lessen its verity and
rigor.

Perhaps, if we fail to stop and consider the matter,
this may sound rather dogmatic. Actually, it isn't.
The statements stand, and will continue to stand
BECAUSE Technocracy IS NOT dogmatic. Tech-
nocrats do not have a doctrine codified from a set of
opinions and myths, with a few inescapable facts ra-
tionalized to fit. Technocracy is wholly conditioned
by the facts of this physical world in which, despite
any philosophical aspirations we may cherish, we are
forced to live; and as and when new facts are found
bearing on our social problems, Technocracy will con-
form as the facts dictate. Physical facts are uncom-
promising, as we may learn if we try to disregard
them.

And so it is easily understood why the Technocrat
is so little interested in 'prestige by association' with
'big names' or the 'right people.' If we are right,
then only one conclusion is possible : they are all
wrong. It isn't too surprising. Those with 'names'
and 'position' are the kind who happen to fit well into

June, 1951

the particular kind of civilization we have under a
Price System. It isn't to be expected that they would
fit some other kind of activity so well.

This doesn't mean -that all the rest of the army is
out of step with the Technocrat either. They're all
out of step with themselves and with everybody. Be-
ing guided largely by opinions and prejudice, they
agree on nothing. There are as many sets of opinions
as there are individuals. There is no unanimity any-
where.

There IS unanimity among Technocrats because
the physical facts are the same for everyone every-
where, and Technocracy is the same wherever it is
found on the Continent. Technocrats are all working
on the same job, building for the New America.

— The 'Co-Ordinator,' published by Section 1,
R. D. 10553, Prince Albert, Sask.

WHAT IS LOYALTY?

MARK TWAIN

YOU see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's
country, not to its institutions or its office-
holders. The country is the real thing, the sub-
stantial thing, the eternal thing : it is the thing to
watch over, and care for, and be loyal to ; institu-
tions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and
clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be
comfortable, cease to protect the body, from winter,
disease and death. To be loyal to rags, to worship
rags, to die for rags — that is a loyalty of unreason,,
it is pure animal ....

"I was from Connecticut whose Constitution de-
clared: "That all political power is inherent in the
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LABOR PAINS

The gestation period of the New Social Order on this Continent, sired
by Science and dammed by Technology, has nearly run its course and
a birth is imperative ; it is too late for abortion. Business, the would-be
father, has been cuckold; and, although it would like the honor of
parenthood, it has no use for the offspring. The birth may come off
through the crude midwifery of revolution or through the planned
direction of a competent obstetrician, but it will come. It is up to the
alert minority of the North American people to make the decision as
to which it shall be.

HOWARD SCOTT, Director-in-Chief.

THE MID-CENTURY has passed into history
and in its passing has brought an end of an epoch
in American political and economic development.
The epoch of self-sustaining, self-expanding private
enterprise has ended and a new era of transitional
gestation has begun.

The national parade of the dumb, the lame, the halt
and the blind was begun in earnest by the Truman
Doctrine on March 12, 1947. Since that time the na-
tional policy has stumbled through a succession of in-
herent blunders, the accumulation of which will pro-
duce 'a redeployment of our forces' through a con-
tinuum of minor disasters to a major catastrophe.

The United States, in the last half-century, lias
witnessed the growth of the American bourgeoisie to
a position of opulence and economic power unparal-
leled in the social history of man. Never before has
any class in any social structure climbed to such eco-
nomic eminence with such a minimum of political and
social responsibility. Corporate profits of the last ten
years have exceeded the income of all the Monarchs
of history. The Lords of the Middle Ages were, in
comparison, but itinerants peddling peanuts. The
American bourgeoisie have achieved a success in the
accumulation of monetary wealth and its accompany-
ing power that out-distances any previous accretion
of economic wealth. They have reached the pinnacle,
but ahead of them on the horizon hangs a dark cloud.

The American bourgeoisie more than any other,
have used modern technology to facilitate the eco-
nomic exploitation that has carried them to the dizzy
heights of their success. The growth of energy-
consuming devices is their nemesis that is rapidly
overtaking them. As more technological capacity is
installed, more goods and services are produced with

less and less man-hours. More raw materials are
needed to feed the increased flow-lines. More sales
are required, more consumers and more markets are
imperative in order to maintain an ever-increasing
output at greater profits with continually declining
capital pay-off time.

For thousands of years the annual increment in pro-
duction from human toil and hand tools was so low
that it required a century or more to amortize out the
principal and interest of any funded debt of capital
goods installation. Therefore, capital could be rein-
vested only once in a century. Man with his human
toil and his hand tools was moved past the work from
each job piece to another. In modern technological
production, with its continuous mass production, we
move the work in a continuous stream past the human
being at terrific speed. The few simple hand tools per
worker of old have been replaced in some of the lat-
est instances with a capital investment of three million
dollars in equipment per employee. This is the real
March of Time, so much so, that in the latest techno-
logical application, if operated at 80 per cent capacity
or better, the}- will amortize out their capital invest-
ment in 5)4 weeks, thereby establishing a record in
capital pay-off time or a possible reinvestment of the
original capital 990.5 times in a century. The more
technological capacity that is installed, the more this
process is hastened.

1 he process, of course, could continue indefinitely,
provided there were illimitable market-places peopled
with consumers possessing unlimited purchasing-
power. This is the paradox and the dilemma with
w h i c h the American bourgeoisie are face to face.
Technological capacity is the real instrumentality of
revolutionary social change. We have installed so

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3

CORPORATE PROFITS 1939—1950

Year Corporate Profits

1936 $ 5.7 billion

1937 6.2

1938 3.3

1939 6.5

1940 9.3

1941 17.2

1942 21.1

1943 25.1

1944 24.3

1945 19.7

1946 23.5

1947 30.5

1948 33.9

1949 27.6

1950 —

First quarter 29.2

Second quarter 37.4

Third quarter 42.0

much at home that we cannot retrace our steps even
if we would. We must go on. Put we have created
double trouble, for we have exported technological
equipment around the world — thereby accelerating so-
cial change and political and economic revolutionary
crisis. This is wonderful — what has been good enough
for us is still better for them !

The policy of more and b e t te r business of the
American bourgeoisie has not only increased and am-
plified the technological capacity of the United States
but it has also made large scale intrusions during the
last ten years into practically every economy around
the globe. This development, of course, has been ac-
celerated by lend-lease during the war and by military
aid, the Marshall Program, and other Government
loans to nearly every other national entity that would
succumb to American economic bribery. Production
and sales have been kept sky-rocketing in the last five
years by open market purchasing, stock piling, parity
prices, installment buying, and long-range, open-end
mortgages. Today, at the beginning of the last half
of the century, we find that United States, in the last
decade, has doubled its daily oil production and its
weekly consumption of kilowatt hours. The capacity
to produce almost anything" from automobiles to re-
frigerators, from hot-water heaters to radio and tele-
vision sets, has been multiplied to such an extent that
all the old methods of increasing sales by mortgaging
future purchasing power no longer suffice.

Abundance Ruins Business

The automotive industry today has an annual ca-
pacity of nine million cars on a single 40-hour weekly
shift, 48 weeks in the year. Even under this Price
System, under present conditions, the abundance is
ruining the scarcity. Pusiness is no longer content
with indirect subsidies that increase the production of
marketable commodities in a market already at or
Hearing saturation. Therefore, business must be sub-
sidized to divert one quarter to fifty per cent of its
capacity into the production of material that never
enters the consumer market. What could be sweeter
than the spending of billions for the production of
equipment, goods and materials that cannot be used
by the American consumer except in a state of war?
This policy is a sweet and vicious one ; for, in order
for it to be successful, the L T nited States would have
to fight a limited war of unlimited duration. This
would have American business financed into a profit-
able enterprise in the production of war goods, paid
for from the taxes of the individual citizen, at the

same time that it creates an artificial scarcity in their
consumer goods production.

This policy presupposes ( 1 ) that the United States
has a plethora of resources to squander into produc-
tion of military materiel for both ourselves and the
so-called allied world; (2) it presupposes military
service for five to six nvTion American males; (3)
that these millions of American males will gladly and
willingly develop an esprit de corps great enough to
create a patriotic military force sufficient to wage ag-
gressive war around the globe while the American
bourgeoisie at home have their snoot and all four feet
in the national economic gravy trough.

This is the fool's paradise of the American bourge-
oisie.

'Old Soldiers' Become Bums

The Armed Forces of the United States have al-
ways been haile d as heroes in times of national emerg-
ency and have inevitabl y deteriorated into the status
of bums when the temporary state of emergency has
passed. The press of the nation is loudly proclaiming
that this is not a temporary emergency but a long-
range situation that may endure for one or more
decades. Therefore, on this long-range basis of our
propaganda, the militarily fit youth of the United
States are doomed to become economic second-class

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citizens with never a prospect of getting their snoot
in the trough, let alone their four feet. For the short
pull, if there were large unemployment, it might tem-
porarily succeed; for the long pull, it is doomed to
failure before it begins for the simple reason that this
nation of ours has technologically discovered how to
produce anything but has not yet developed, outside
of Technocracy, the collective intelligence to deter-
mine what to do.

The position of the I'nited States, as we have re-
peatedly pointed out, in the Far East and Europe is
untenable. Korea is but the first, if we continue on
the present policy, in a series of blunders. Japan,
Formosa, Okinawa, Vienna and Berlin are alike un-
tenable on any long-range basis. Whether we realize
it or not, we are in the midst of a world revolution —
social change is on the march and will not be denied.
The American bourgeoisie arc like the Bourbons —
they never learn and they never forget. None of this
is to be construed that Technocracy in any way en-
dorses or supports the asininitics of Herbert Hoover,
Senator Taft, ct al. There is little to distinguish their
proposals from the stupidity of the Truman Doctrine.
Both our internal operations and our foreign policy,
so called, will eventually bring home to the people of
the United States and North America the realization
that the future of this Continent is dependent upon
the development of a Continentalism. Maybe we will
learn from defeat what our success has failed to
teach us.

The Superior Ideology

This nation has been deluged with the propaganda
of fear and hysteria — with fear of the Russians and
a hysteria of the communist bogie. Let us state it
simply — Russia could not win a war on this Continent
— United States could not win a war on the Russian
continentalism. Russia does not have to attack west-
ern Europe in order to enhance her position. Russia
can succeed without the acquisition of western Europe,
by staying exactly where she is and continuing the in-
tegration, consolidation, and development of her own
orbit. This does not say that the Russians will dis-
continue their insidious propaganda in other countries.
They use their communist internationalism as a sharp,
two-edged psychological weapon wherever social un-
rest shows its ugh' head. This Continent has nothing
to gain and everything to lose if it accepts any part
of the internationalism of Rome, Moscow or Mecca.

Ideologies are never defeated by bombs, bullets or
bayonets: ideologies are always superseded and ren-
dered obsolete only by a superior ideology that is en-

demic to the terrain, the social vision, and the state of
technology of one's continental area. America has an
ideology, superior to both communism and fascism; it
is the militant ideology of a technological imperative
— Technocracy

The great seal of the United States has two sides,
both legal ; the one we arc most accustomed to on
public documents has the predatory eagle embossed
upon its face. The time has come to turn over the
great seal of the United States which on the reverse
side says 'Annuit coeptis Novus Ordo Seclorum' —
Time Makes Way for a New Order of the Ages.

The business, the ecclesiastical, and the political
manipulators of the United States are sedulously se-
ducing the American public with the hysteria of anti-
communism into a state of pseudo-fascism — they are
promulgating- the doctrine that fascism is the antidote
to communism. They plan to infect this nation and
this Continent with the social syphilis of fascism in
order to stop the eczema of social change on this Con-
tinent. 'It is Later Than you Think.' The next five
years zuill be the most decisive in human history, and
the next ten the most conclusive.

Technocracy asks every patriotic North American
to become a militant organizer for the New America.
It is time for every alert citizen to become vigilant
and militant in the movement for social change on
this Continent. We live only once. Let us live for a
worthy North American objective.

A UNIDIRECTIONAL TREND

WASHINGTON.— A hydraulic refueling pump
designed by the air material command does the work
of eight electric pumps in half the time and weighs
only about one-twelfth as much.

It halves the time both tanker and fueling planes
must fly during refueling operations. It also elimin-
ates the heavy electrical load on the plane's power
plant. Since it is so much more efficient than ordi-
nary pumps, its use for many other purposes is being
explored.

'Every time a new plant is built, or a new piece of
equipment designed that replaces older equipment
which has become obsolete, this new equipment runs
faster and requires fewer man-hours of human atten-
tion per unit of production than its predecessor.' It
also obviates further investments for the expansion
which is necessary for the survival of the Price Sys-
tem.

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5

Decline of
American Intelligence

The trend in the United States has nearly reached the state where there
is not enough superior intelligence left to administer affairs in a man-
ner that will contribute to social advancement. What are we going to
do about this situation?

HUMAN BEINGS are not created equal in any
objective sense of the word, and they never
become equal in spite of all the high philo-
sophical assertions to the contrary. Human beings
differ, biologically, in their physical structure and
physiology, in their intellectual capacities and special
abilities, and in their behavior tendencies. Socially,
they are woefully unequal in their environmental
background and social inheritance, in their economic
and social opportunities, in their privileges and disad-
vantages, in their superstitions and beliefs, and in
their education and training. And they are unequal
in death, as attested by the difference in treatment
their remains receive, in the difference of space al-
lotted them in the obituary columns, and in difference
of their tombstones. Some of these social inequalities
accrue from variations in biological inheritance, and
some accrue from differences in the circumstances of
birth and in the facilities and opportunities provided
for them afterwards.

We shall restrict this discussion to only one of
these differences — the one which appears to us to be
the most significant at this time; and we shall note
the trend it is taking and the probable social effects
that will develop from it. We shall choose the dif-
ferences in general intelligence — the capacity to ana-
lyze problems and situations and to work out an ef-
fective solution to them. This is a condition which is
subject to extreme variation in human beings, and it
is essentially hereditary ; that is, one is born with a
certain capacity and there is not much that one can do
to alter it for the better. Whether this capacity is
used, or how it is used, is another matter ; for in-
stance, a person with a high capacity may foul it up
with philosophical concepts and assumptions so as to
render it practically useless, or a person with a rela-
tively lower capacity may streamline its application to

the extent that functionally it becomes quite effective.
However, in general, one's intellectual effectiveness is
in proportion to one's inherited capacity.

There is a generally-held assumption in North
America and northwestern Europe that the descend-
ants of the white Anglo-Saxons possess more intellec-
tual capacity than any other population block on earth.
This assumption is demonstrably erroneous, and it is
highly hazardous as a basis on which to proceed so-
cially. Basically, the Chinese, Japanese, Asiatic In-
dians, Tartars, Arabs, Semites, Slavs, Negroes, Amer-
ican Indians, and others are fully as able in their
thinking as are the Anglo-Saxons and, given an equal
education and training, are fully as capable of provid-
ing effective social direction as are the derivatives of
Northwest Europe.

New Ideas Eradicated

It may be argued that North America has a more
advanced culture than certain other areas on the earth
and that, therefore, our enlightenment indicates a
higher intelligence while their backwardness indicates
a lower intelligence. But it so happens that cultural
backwardness does not necessarily mean a generally
lower intelligence ; in fact, the reverse may be true.
Let us remind ourselves that, when the Romans first
invaded the realm of the Anglo-Saxons (not too many
centuries ago), they looked down upon our ancestors
as backward people. More recently, we regarded the
Japanese people as backward people, in need of en-
lightenment by American business enterprise; and,
within a century, it turned out that they are fully as
intelligent as we, and possibly more so.

Societies of the past have never been kind to the
intellectually superior individual. He was inclined to
'get ideas;' and, to the social control of any static so-
ciety, an idea is looked upon as a hazard to be eradi-

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cated. Thus, the tendency of the social administra-
tors of the great societies of the past has been toward
the extermination of those individuals who came forth
with new ideas. This extermination of the top intelli-
gence by the dominant social organizations of the past
was undoubtedly one of the most important factors
in the decline of those societies. Because of this tend-
ency, the civilizations of Persia, Arabia, Palestine,
Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain, and others sank to medi-
ocrity or worse and have never recovered. The Cath-
olic Inquisitions in Italy and Spain eliminated the
intelligence of those countries and their decline as
world powers inevitably followed. The same proce-
dure was applied to the Indian population of Central
and South America by the Catholic Conquistadores,
with the result that those areas have remained in a
backward state for centuries. Concomitant with this
decline has been a growth of superstition, ignorance,
poverty, and over-population.

Northwest Europe was introduced to the process
of idea eradication more recently than the Mediter-
ranean region, and it was not pursued so viciously ;
hence, the Anglo-Saxons retained for a longer period a
larger proportion of their intellectually superior types,
and this permitted them to rise to dominance in the
process of looting the world. However, the descendants
of these early Anglo-Saxons are displaying no more
collective intelligence than did the ancient Mediter-
raneans, with the result that northwest Europe and
North America are following in the same sorry foot-
steps. From a cursory analysis of the situation, it
would appear that some other area which has with-
stood Western civilization longer, hence has retained
more of its basic intellectual ability, is destined to
supplant these areas in the social leadership of the
world.

The Anglo-Saxons have not displayed the same di-
rectness and viciousness against their intellectually su-
perior variants as did the cultures surrounding the
Mediterranean ; rather, they operate as if they ac-
cepted the principle that a slow death is preferable to
a quick one. We do not mean to imply that this is a
conscious procedure; it is primarily a consequence of
a haphazard and sloppy administrative technique.
But, in the long run, and in a less brutal way, it is
fully as effective as any ecclesiastical Inquisition. The
procedure followed in the United States, particularly,
is one which makes it difficult and undesirable for
the intellectually superior individuals to reproduce
their own numbers. As a consequence, the superior
intelligence of the United States has, for more than a

century now, been suffering a fifty per cent deletion
each generation. The trend in the United States has
nearly reached the stage where, under this system,
there is not enough superior intelligence left to ad-
minister the affairs of the area in a manner that will
contribute to social advancement. Rather, the United
States has about reached the sorry stage that imperial
Rome reached at the time that the old Roman Empire
began its decline. Plowever, the United States cannot
have 400 years in which to decline as did the old
Roman Empire.

Factors Influencing Decline

Let us elaborate now upon the factors which are
most influential in the present decline of American
intelligence and national virility.

As a matter of theoretical study, suppose we take
the American society of a century ago and classify it
into four equal divisions on the basis of general intel-
lectual ability; thus, twenty-five per cent of the popu-
lation would be placed in each group. If we then
make a study of the occupational categories of the
people in each of these groups, we would find them
filled somewhat as follows :

Group 1 (the highest intelligence) would include
most of the scientists and engineers, many of the pro-
fessional people, many skilled technicians and me-
chanics, and a considerable number of farmers.

Group 2 would contain a sizable proportion of the
professional people, a large part of the skilled techni-
cians, shop foremen, organizers, a n d chorus girls ;
also, it would contain many businessmen and farmers.

Group 3 would contain a good proportion of those
in the less-skilled professions, many of the small busi-
nessmen, laborers, farmers, and 'the people next door.'

Group 4 would include, for the most part, unskilled
laborers, poor farmers, and just plain bums; but it
would also include a number of the national celebri-
ties.

In Groups 1 and 2, of a century ago, there would
have been more farmers and unspecialized laborers
than in a similar classification today, since those occu-
pations had not been as thoroughly culled of their su-
perior intellects as they have since become.

Now let us examine into the reproductive rates of
these four groupings.

Those in the lowest Group (4), having fewer intel-
lectual interests, tend to marry early and have large
families. The generations average about 25 years
apart ; and, on the whole, their numbers are more
than doubled each generation.

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POPULATION TRENDS IN U. S. A.
(For Explanation See Text)

Diagram 1

0.6 %
4.6 %

20.2 %

74.6 %

1850

1950

The highest group is handicapped in its reproduc-
tion rate by several adverse influences: (a) The indi-
viduals tend to have many interests other than mar-
riage and reproduction ; (b) they tend to have higher
social ambitions and standards which demand that
they devote more time and attention toward becoming
'successful,' and this delays the time of marriage; (c)
they tend to extend their educational period longer,
most of those who graduate from college being in
this Group; (d) they know how to more successfully
limit the probabilities of conception ; (e) their gen-
erally higher standard of living is such that they can-
not afford to have large families and still maintain it ;

and (f ) it is not fashionable for people in this Group
to have large families. As a consequence of these
factors, the highest Group has fewer children and the
generations are spaced farther apart, about 33 years
on the average. The numbers of this group have been
declining at the rate of fifty per cent each generation.

The two middle categories fit in between these ex-
tremes in approximately relative positions.

As a further theoretical study, let us follow the
trend these Groups will take, separately and relatively,
over a period of one century, basing this study upon
the following estimates : Group 1 will produce on the
average one effective offspring for each mated pair
( an effective offspring is one who survives childhood
and mates), and the generations will be 33 years
apart — three to a century. Group 2 will produce two
effective offspring per mated couple, and the average
generation will be thirty years. Group 3 will produce
three effective offspring per couple, and the genera-
tions will average 28 years apart. Group 4 will pro-
duce four effective offspring per couple, and the gen-
erations will be 25 years apart. Beginning with equal
numbers in each Group, the trend that they will take
over a century is shown in Diagram 1.

We note from this Diagram that the numbers in the
first Group become reduced to one-eighth their orig-
inal number and that the relative number is reduced
from 25 per cent to six-tenths of one per cent. In
the second Group, the numbers remain the same, but
the percentage in the population is reduced from 25
to 4.6. In the third Group, the numbers are increased
by four and one-third times, but the percentage in the
population is reduced slightly, to 20.2. In the fourth
Group, the numbers are increased sixteen times, and
the percentage in the population is increased nearly
three times, to 74.6. During the century, the total
population would be increased by more than five times
the original number.

On referring to population statistics, we find that
the population of the United States has increased by
more than six times during the past century, due to
natural increase and immigration. Since the large
influxes of immigration during the later 18(X)'s em-
phasized the import of cheap, unskilled labor, we
doubt that the quality of the American population
was much improved by this factor; rather, we sus-
pect that it tended to lower the general trend rather
than improve it. Thus, our theoretical diagram fits
sufficiently close to the actual population trend in the
United States of the past century that we must con-

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elude that it approximates the actual changes. If any-
thing different, the diagram does not adequately de-
pict the full magnitude of the decline, but makes the
present situation look more favorable than it actu-
ally is.

This trend, perhaps more than anything else, ex-
plains the bankruptcy of administrative ability in the
United States at this time and the low mediocrity of
our statesmanship — the tendency to turn toward war
as an evasion of our internal problems instead of re-
solving them in a socially beneficial manner. It also
explains the national mania for baseball, football,
horse racing, celebrity worship, and all the other traits
which characterize people of limited intellects.

At present, the social rewards go not to those
who have real ability, but to those who can cater to,
or amuse, the largest number of people, or who can
somehow finagle themselves into positions of eco-
nomic advantage. The Price System places a pre-
mium on such types as : smart promoters, blustering
bullies, ruthless scrooges, emotional dramatists, jump-
ing jacks, singers, and plodding slaves. The only
ideas that seem to be appreciated are those for turn-
ing up a fast buck. Any ideas for a long-term stra-
tegic advancement of the social area are so far above
the concepts of the average person that, if they do
come to his attention, he regards them as 'crack-pot.'

America's Greatest Danger

The great danger in America today is that the gen-
eral intelligence has already reached such a low level
that any superior plan for meeting the national emerg-
ency will be scuttled, not only from lack of followers
but also from lack of intellects capable of compre-
hending it.

The trend toward fascism and superstition is now
more serious than at any other time in the history of
the country. There have been other periods of gen-
eral hysteria, including the anti-bolshevik hysteria
following World War 1, but none were so chronic
nor so all-pervading as the present hysteria, which is
directed against a wide number of things, including
science, social welfare, planning, peace, all kinds of
ideas, and intelligence in general — all lumped together
under the epithet, 'communism.' Following World
War J. there was an upsurge of ideas in the United
States, and numerous social movements and study
groups were organized ; but, following World War II,
there has been no such upsurge. Rather, there has
been a serious decline in the number and extent of
the intellectual pursuits and social study organizations

which were already in existence. This is due in part
to stronger and more aggressive action on the part of
the collaborators of that same suppressive force that
instituted the Inquisitions of Europe, but it is due to
more than this alone : there is now less intelligence to
oppose it.

American businessmen and politicians have never
been noted for superior intelligence, but never have
their ranks been so bankrupt of vision and strategic di-
rection as they are at present. One might expect some-
thing better from colleges and universities; but the
universities of the country, instead of advancing the
development of the intellectually superior individuals,
appear to be engaged in a conspiracy to suppress
them. They are degenerating into instrumentalities
for the promulgation of superstition and reactionary
propaganda, to qualify, among other things, for a
mass attendance of second rate students. As late as the
early 1930's, one could find intellectual stimulus at
the universities of America, but that day is now past.

There was a time, not many decades ago, when an
Intelligence Quotient (I. 0.) of 100 was considered
as average for the United States. Now the average
is much lower than that and the number of individ-
uals who exceed 100 is diminishing. (Factual infor-
mation given here is available in any modern eugenics
textbook.)

This decline in intelligence is reflected in the inter-
national dealings between the United States and other
nations. It is particularly reflected in the unfavorable
developments in the conflicts between the United
States and Asia, whose uneducated one billion or more
inhabitants have an average basic intelligence which
is probably higher than that of the United States by
a sizeable margin. If the Asiatics had the same tools,
weapons, resources, and knowledge that we have, we
would be unable to compete with them on equal terms.

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COVER PICTURE

World's Greatest Highway System — The 327 Mile
Pennsylvania Turnpike system is the first long distance
highway in the world to be constructed with modern
requirements for transportation incorporated in the de-
sign. Technocracy proposes, as part of its program, a
Continental system of super-highways similar in basic
concept but superior in design and construction to the
Turnpike, to provide rapid transportation of men and
equipment in case of war, and equally necessary for
peace-time modern transportation. (Photo — Courtesy of
Penna. Turnpike Commission).

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SCIENCE in the NEWS

EDITOR'S NOTE: The staff of The TECHNOCRAT has selected some of the latest information
and developments in technological advancement, discoveries, and inventions which are responsible in
changing our way of life from a system of scarcity to an economy of abundance. As the impact of
technology descends upon the Price System, bringing with it an ever increasing rate of social change,
the result will be a non-operative economy, unless we, the American people, have the intelligence to
demand the application of science as a method of social operation.

RESEARCH DID IT

A contract calling for the construction of the two
largest and heaviest hydraulic presses ever devised
was announced by the United States Air Force. While
the exact dimensions of the new super presses have
not been divulged, the Air Material Command officials
say the huge forging machines will have a capacity

WORLD'S LARGEST HYDROPRESS— The model
shown has a capacity greater than 50,000 tons. This press
will revolutionize the application of mass production meth--
ods in forming metals, and bring about more social change.
In comparison, note the size of the man. (Photo — Cour-
tesy of Loewy Construction Company, Inc.)

greater than 50,000 tons, a figure far in excess of any
hydraulic press ever built.

Plans for building the monster presses, which will
tower six stories high, evolved from experimental
work carried out by technologists and engineers un-
der the auspices of the Air Force at its methods pilot
plant at Adrian, Michigan. The two presses will be
built by Loewy-Hydropress, and are to be in opera-
tion by the middle of 1952.

At the present time the world's largest die forging
press, 33,000 tons, is operated by the Russians. It
was built in Germany and was acquired by Russia
along with an extrusion press of 13.000 tons capacity
as partial payment of war reparations. The technical
talent was also included in the bargain.

During the war the German forging techniques and
equipment could knock out 700 aluminum aircraft
propellers in an eight hour shift, while we managed
only 42 in the same time. While the U. S. facilities
are still much smaller than the present Russian instal-
lations, the new Hydropress will far exceed anything
ever conceived in the history of technological devel-
opment in metal forgers and extruders.

The purpose of the large press is to provide facili-
ties for the application of new mass-production meth-
ods utilizing plastic forming of metals which will re-
sult in a strengthening of the aircraft's structure, re-
duce the dead weight, and thus increase the load the
plane can carry and the range of flight. These new
methods cf forming metal can be applied in other
industries, such as the production of automobiles.

The actual operation of the machine is simple. The
operator has only to feed in metal blanks or billets,
and then push buttons. The mighty 'muscle' of steel
will then shape the metal — as though it were paper —
into the form desired all in one operation. The

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presses will turn out parts at speeds and of dimen-
s : ons now unattainable. It will be possible to produce
entire wing sections at one working of the press.
Wing sections are now fabricated from many separ-
ate parts and fastened with countless rivets.

One die on a drop-hammer press, as used by Amer-
ican industry, makes a maximum of 4000 parts, while
the Hydropress will make about 100,000. Displace-
ment of man-hours and the savings of metal required
will be tremendous. Parts that do not require the
full capacity can be produced in multiple cavity dies,
or several dies can be placed in the press, and parts
of different designs produced at the same time. The
Hydropress is another example of the limitless prog-
ress of science when applied to the job at hand.

BALANCED MECHANISM

In this new machine the whole assembly — block ro-
tating and reciprocating parts — is placed in the bal-
ancing machine. The crankshaft is rotated; proper
amount of correction is determined ; correction is
made ; correction is checked — all in one operation. The
unbalance which is corrected includes the built-up, cu-
mulative kind, which otherwise might not have been
noticeable until some disappointed user found that he
had a rough motor.

PROCESS CONSERVES MATERIALS

New asphalt roads from old roads are made possi-
ble by a new rejuvenating process.. The revolutionary
rehabilitation method saves up to 50% highway-repair
costs. In addition, the new technique permits roads
to be rebuilt speedily, without de touring, and con-
serves tremendous quantities of road-building mate-
rials.

The new rejuvenating method can be applied on
one lane of a busy road while traffic continues on the
ether. First, the old pavement is ripped up and tested
to determine what additional components, if any, are
reeded to produce the desired road qualities. The
broken-up pavement, which was formerly hauled away
and discarded, is then fed into a mobile 'road plant,'
where it is thoroughly pulverized and mixed with as-
phalt softener.

At this point, additional solid components may be
added if the initial test has indicated their need.
Weaknesses in the original pavement and base may
be corrected so that the rehabilitated road is actually
better than the original was when newly built. Finally,
the rejuvenated pavement is re-laid behind the mixing
machine and the lane is opened for traffic immediately.

BALANCING MACHINE— This machine balances the
entire assembled engine in one operation. All the man has
to do is operate the panel board. No doubt about it, the
scientific method of operation could balance the social or-
der. (Photo — Courtesy Gisholt Machine Co.)

MOBILE 'ROAD PLANT'— Roads can be built twice
as fast and at half the cost with a new rejuvenating
process. This machine collects the old broken as-
phalt, and pulverizes it, to receive asphalt softener,
after which it is mixed and laid down, a better-than-
new road surface. (Photo — Courtesy Shell Oil Co.)

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Heated white hot, a 400 pound chrome-nickle-molybdenum steel billet, shaped like a doughnut, (upper left) is forced
through a series of dies in a powerful 5500-ton press. It emerges as a tapered-wall, hollow-steel tube, 10 feet long
(lower left).. (Right) The tube and the finished propeller blade into which it is transformed by flattening and form-
ing to provide the proper shape and twist.

The development of a new mass production method
of hot extruding one-piece, hollow-steel propeller
blades for high-speed combat and commercial aircraft
was announced by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
The basic process employed is similar to that used in
the manufacture of macaroni and tubes for shaving
cream and toothpaste, but is much more complex.

Heralded as a vital contribution to the acceleration
of the National Emergency program, the new extru-
sion process makes possible spectacular savings in
strategic materials, skilled manpower, costly machin-
ing operations, floor space required for manufactur-
ing, and tools — all factors which will be of prime im-
portance for increased efficiency and productive ca-
pacity. Operations in propeller manufacture, which
now require hours of tedious hand work, are reduced
by the new methods to a series of three steps which
can be accomplished in minutes.

The improved producibility of the extruded blade
is accompanied by a marked increase in blade quality

and strength-weight ratio.

While extrusion — the art of forcing metal in a con-
tinuous form by forcing it through a die — has been
practiced by industry for over a quarter of a century,
use of the basic process has been confined principally
to the production of pipe, tubes, bars and other sim-
plified forms except in the lighter and softer metals.
No recorded data were available on the hot extrusion
process of steel in anything approaching the complex
shapes and tapered thickness required in propeller
blade manufacture.

The new process, perfected in less than two years,
makes possible a 40 percent reduction in man-hours,
and a saving of approximately 350 pounds of vital
materials for each propeller blade.

Application of the new process reaches beyond the
aviation industry. On the basis of experience gained
in the propeller blade development program, those
who participated are sure that the new methods have
unlimited possibilities in other fields.

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MAN or STARFISH

Social change is imminent. Will citizens of North America cooperate
and follow planned direction, or will they dissipate their efforts in
futile, useless bickerings and struggle? On YOUR answer depends
the fate of a continent.

IN HIS evolution, man has gained the distinction
of being the most complexly coordinated species
of all plant and animal life on the earth.
But before we get too puffed-up about this 'distinc-
tion,' let us realize that man collectively, as a society,
has not achieved much more coordination than a star-
fish.

A starfish is a fairly well organized animal, yet it
lacks coordination between its different members.
When a starfish is turned on its back, two arms may
pull in one direction while the other three pull in an-
other. Or all five arms may pull away from each
other in five different directions. It thrashes about in
this manner until one arm, or a certain combination
of arms, happens to pull a little stronger than the
others. Yes, the starfish finally does get itself pulled
right-side-up again, but not in a planned direction. It
gets about by very haphazard means.

As a society, so far, we have been progressing in
much the same manner as a starfish. What we have
accomplished has been due more to change of circum-
stances than to any planned direction. Yet, this awk-
ward situation is not at all necessary.

Our telephone system is an example of what we
are able to accomplish when we apply our knowledge
and resources in achieving a predetermined goal.
That this method works is proved when we pick up
the telephone receiver in our home and dial a number.

Our scientists and engineers have the know-how to
analyze conditions and make use of this knowledge
when deciding on a course of action that will most
probably result in desired achievements for society as
a whole.

When the benefit of this course of action is rec-
ognized by the different members of our society, we
are then able to follow the plans and directions of a
central unit. But, as it is, there are usually so many
divergent special interests involved that we cannot all
agree on the direction society shall take. We have
the know-how but not the know-what.

Consequently, we find each unit of our society pull-

ing in a different direction. For instance, each labor
union is pulling toward higher wages for its own
members; big business toward higher profits for it-
self ; the consumer toward lower prices ; and there is
government interference in all phases. It is impossi-
ble by this method for all to gain their objective, or
for any one group to be fully successful.

Men, accepted by the public as authorities, make
contradictory statements which are, at best, nothing
more than their own personal opinions. This causes
public opinion to be divided and divergent. What
kind of a locomotive would we be able to build by this
method? A locomotive designer may have his per-
sonal opinions on other subjects, but when he designs
a locomotive he relies upon facts and exact measure-
ments. The proposed function of the locomotive, plus
the accumulation of facts pertaining to it, determines
the design. The minute details must be worked out
to conform with the over-all plan.

Re-design Social Mechanism

Our present social structure is broken up into little
units, each of which is attempting a design to con-
form to its beliefs and desires, while an over-all plan
for the operation of our whole society is entirely lack-
ing among our present political leaders. What kind
of social mechanism can we expect when all of these
uncoordinated parts are put together? Not a func-
tional machine, surely.

Our very lives today depend upon the continued
operation of our agriculture, industry, transportation,
and communication on all the flow-lines of our civili-
zation. Very few people, even in isolated rural spots,
could survive for long a complete shut-down of our
flow-lines. In our complex society, we cannot depend
upon the slow and awkward techniques that are per-
missible for a starfish. If enough people want to, we
can go on from here toward a greater civilization
than the world has ever seen, but we can do so only

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WHY WE NEED - - - - T O 1

I

T IS quite obvious from the Congressman's letter, which
appears on the opposite page, that a designed direction

of national operations cannot be attained if the countries
of America permit business and party politics to dominate
their social mechanism.

The structure of North America demands that we North
Americans abandon the haphazard conflict of private and
group interest in order that we may meet the emergency i
and win the peace. Conflicting private and group interests I
must be submerged and replaced by compulsory national
service. We must abolish production for profit at a price
and substitute in its place the engineering design of produc-
tion for the strategy of a total emergency. ^

The conflict of world events compels the United States
and Canada to install a scientific, designed direction, now,
before it is too late. America will not attain total mobiliza-
tion of all resources, all skill, and equipment of North Amer-
ica as long as it permits business, party politics, labor, farm
bloc, and thousands of other conflicting group interests to
dominate the administration of the emergency by divided
and voluntary operation.

America will have to adopt compulsory national service
in place of selling the emergency to big business, selling it
to labor unions, selling it to the farmers, selling it to capital,
and selling it to the public through various forms of eco-
nomic bribery. The people of North America must adopt
national service as their part of the contract of citizenship.
In this emergency it is 'all for one and one for all.'

As Total Conscription will eliminate profits, fees, and
commissions no citizen will get rich through the spilling c
the blood of other citizens in the defense of their country.
The Price System operates on the basis of cha.':
rS^y\ whatever the traffic will bear, and the emergency k

presents a golden opportunity for the chiseler. TBe
tific operation of the economy would automatical
inate such features.

We cannot achieve a national esprit de corp
nal efficiency while some citizens gain wealth a
advantage in prices, profits, wages, and rack*
expense of other Americans who are dying

Therefore, Technocracy proposes that
of the United States and Canada shall <
Machines, Materiel, and Money of thei
tional service from all and profits to n

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1 A L CONSCRIPTION

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February 2h, 1951

VETERANS' AFFAIRS

THOMAS C. OILSTRAP

Mr. David E. Livingston
3002 Gedney Street
Everett, Washington

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Dear Mr. Livingston:

I am just in receipt of your letter together with the
enclosed statement on total conscription. Let me say to
you that I have long advocated the exact plan which you
mention. I have always said that in a time of war or
national emergency, such as we now face, that every segment
of our industry and national life should be drafted. I feel
that every industrialist, every lawyer, doctor and other
professional men, every factory worker, every farmer and
everyone should be conscripted and serve at exactly the same
wages which the enlisted man receives in the armed services.
If such a system were in force, we could pay for any war as
it was being fought and posterity would not be loaded with
a huge war debt. I am sorry to say this but my guess is that
I may be the only one in the House of Representatives or the
Senate who is willing to go this far. I think there is absolutely
no chance of getting legislation of this kind passed. Judging
from the mail which I receive from people in my district and
state, as well as all over the United States, I have come to
the conclusion that there is perhaps less patriotism in this
country than any country under the sun. Daily I receive letters
from parents who have 18 year old sons, demanding that they not
be drafted. If the parents happen to have sons who are 2$ years
old, they demand that we draft the 18 year olds. We receive
letters from the cities demanding that the prices of farm products
be controlled and in the same mail, we receive letters from farmers
demanding that everyone be controlled but them. I have decided
that selfishness governs the thoughts of almost everyone in this
country. The people are not thinking so much about the suffering
and sacrifices made by the boys in Korea as they are about the fat
benefits they can take advantage of during a time of national
emergency.

I appreciate your calling this matter to may attention but I must
frankly admit that I am discouraged with the outlook.

I thank you for writing me and you may be assured that I shall
appreciate hearing from you at any time.

With all good wishes, I am

CHivk

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The RESEARCH BULLETIN

NEWS ITEMS OF SIGNIFICANCE
QUOTED FROM THE NATION'S PRESS

UNPROFITABLE FOR BUSINESS

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, (UP)— South
Africa will be able to produce most of the bags and
twine and a great deal of the paper it requires when
a startling plant, called cotine, which yields fibers for
these and other uses, is grown here.

Tests by the Shirley Institute in Lancashire, Eng-
land, have proved its reliability and it will be grown
in South Africa as soon as government sanction is
obtained for importation of the seed. Every part of
the plant is, in fact, useful, and even oil from the seed
is edible.

The plant can be grown anywhere up to 2000 feet
above sea level, needs no watering and fertilizes itself
with its own leaves. An estimated 174,000 plants can
be grown to an acre, and one acre produces 800
pounds of cotine, compared to the 150 pounds per
acre yield of cotton.

Cotine takes four months to grow and each plant
lives for about 10 years. By the fourth year, the plant
quadruples in size, and it maintains that stature until
it dies. Its production costs here are only 2%d (3
cents a pound).

RAILROADS WON'T LIKE IT

PITTSBURGH. — Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal
Co. today disclosed a plan to transport coal through
pipelines. The company, which is the world's largest
commercial producer of bituminous coal, announced
it will build a demonstration size pipe line system in
Eastern Ohio to move coal as a slurry.

After being mined the coal will be washed and
crushed to a fine size. Then it will be mixed with
water to form a slurry which will be fed into the pipe
line under pressure by means of pumps especially de-
signed for that purpose. Equipment at the end of the
line will remove the coal and dry it. The system,
which will handle several thousands of tons daily, will
be operated continuously.

SCIENCE DETECTS FLAWS

A dye that acts like a blotting paper to detect al-
most invisible cracks in metal is high on the new prod-
ucts list. In Hawthorne, Gal., Northrop Aircraft,
Inc., developed the method for detecting flaws and
cracks in precision metal parts. It works with three
liquids. A red dye is spread on the metal, it is re-
moved with the second liquid, and the third liquid is
spread on the metal to form a white coating. The
red dye has high capillarity and low surface tension
and as a consequence, it tends to flow into the smallest
cracks and flaws.

NO MORE SECTION HANDS

There is little need for section-hands anymore be-
cause the railroads' new stone ballast cleaning ma-
chine works along the track on its own power, scoop-
ing up the ballast to a depth of 14 to 18 inches, shak-
ing it clean through a vibrating screen and shooting
the dirt out beyond the tracks.

This new machine does the work better and faster
than older methods and is another example of scien-
tific achievement building a more efficient transporta-
tion system with less human toil.

PRODUCTION UP, RESERVES DOWN

NEW YORK. — The American Petroleum Institute
reports that world production of crude oil set a new
record in 1950. Total global production was an esti-
mated 3,786,000,000 barrels, 350 million barrels higher
than in 1948, the previous record year.

Most of the increase came from wells outside
the United States. American production totaled
1,973,000,000 barrels. U. S. ranking in crude pro-
duction dropped 2 points in 1950. It produced 52 per
cent of the world output, compared with 63 per cent
in 1946.

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GETTING READY FOR THE 'KILL'

Year-end inventories held by manufacturers were
estimated at $33.9 billion, indicating an advance of
$4.9 billion for the year. (During 1-949 inventory
values had declined $3.4 billion.) The 1950 inven-
tory rise was continuous over the year, but the sharp-
est advance — amounting to $3.5 billion — occurred in
the first quarter after the start of the Korean War.

Higher prices accounted in large measure for the
larger inventory book values, but there was also a
substantial accumulation in the quantity of goods held
in stock.

The December 31 values of inventories reflected
nearly a billion dollar increase from November. This
rise was persuasive and reflected higher book values
of inventories in all of the component industries.

PROBLEM: DISTRIBUTION

The emergency confronting the nation raises the
question of our capacity to produce and the possibili-
ties for expanding this capacity.

A rough idea as to how much we can increase our
total agricultural output over present levels may be
had by referring to records of our past performance
in this respect.

America's farmers responded to the unprecedented
demands of World War II by turning out 28 per cent
more products in 1944 than in 1939. The all-time
record output of 1948 represented an increase of ap-
proximately 31 per cent over 1931, the highest pre-
World War II figure. The 1948 production record
was achieved with 4 per cent fewer farm workers and
2.3 per cent less acreage than were used in 1931.

BUSINESS KNOWS NO ENEMIES

The Federal Trade Commission has submitted to
Congress a report on 'International Cartels in the Al-
kali Industry.'

The report deals with the nature, extent and effects
of international agreements concerning baking soda,
soda ash and caustic soda, to which organized groups
of European and American producers of alkali were
parties from 1924 to 1946. Information for the re-
port was obtained from the Commission's files.

The report traces the steps by which the United
States Alkali Export Association, Inc., first competed
for several years with the cartelized European alkali
manufacturers and later, through a series of under-
standings and agreements, cooperated increasingly to

divide world markets, establish quotas, fix prices, and
restrain competition.

Under these agreements, exclusive markets were
assigned to the various parlies. In each such market
the holders of the exclusive privilege enjoyed a mo-
nopoly protected by the mutual agreement that 'each
party shall use its best endeavors to prevent shipments
from its exclusive market to markets exclusive to
other parties.' Other markets were designated as
'joint' markets, in which prices were fixed and sales
were shared in accordance with quotas agreed upon
by the parties.

REFUGEES OF 'FREEDOM'

PUS AN, Korea — (UP.) — The Korean govern-
ment estimated that nearly half of South Korea's
20,000,000 inhabitants have been driven from their
homes by the war and have become refugees.

So far, 4,357,381 Koreans have registered with the
Korean Social Affairs ministry as refugees. An even
greater number remain unregistered, the ministry es-
timated. Many of the refugees have contracted small-
pox, typhoid fever or pneumonia, the ministry said.

OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL!

The University of Michigan has completed another
year's survey of consumer finances for the Federal
Reserve System, and one of the interesting facts re-
vealed by this thorough study is that 91 per cent of
the American people have no stake whatsoever in
business. They do not hold any common or preferred
shares in any corporation open to investment by the
public. This report shows that the economic system
of 'free enterprise' is controlled and operated by a mi-
nority, and any statements to the contrary are mis-
leading and inaccurate.

WHAT IS LOYALTY?

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people, and all free governments are founded on their
authority, and instituted for their benefit, and that
they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible
right to alter their form of government in such a
manner as they may think expedient" . . . Under that
gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees the common-
wealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds
his peace, and does not agitate for a new suit, is dis-
loyal ; he is a traitor.'

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Decline of American Intelligence

(Continued from Page 9)

Superficially at least, this condition appears to be
highly alarming with respect to the future of the
North American Continent, and there is a good chance
that it will become disastrous. Our so-called democ-
racy tends to promote into prominence those individ-
uals whose intelligence is not above the average, but
who have the wherewithal or ability to show them-
selves off to a little better advantage in some minor
capacity ; or who happen to be more lucky than the
average. For example, the celebrity may have inher-
ited a throat structure which permits of a better sing-
ing voice, or is a little more unerring in batting a
baseball, or a little more adept at pitching balls that
get missed by the batter, or has facial or other phys-
ical features which appeal to the public, or can put
more oratorical fire and pathos into speeches that
somebody else writes. A happy possession of some
one of these traits, along with a lucky break in pro-
motional publicity, and the person becomes an Amer-
ican celebrity.

Need For New Social Concept

In contrast, the person who has real ability, par-
ticularly intellectual ability, is suppresse:!. If he is
lucky, he may become one of the ghost writers for
some moron who is in the spotlight. Otherwise, he
will probably 'beat his brains out' trying to 'get ahead'
in the Price System, under the illusion that society
rewards those who are worthy. Eventually, in dis-
gust, he may sell out to some business or political
racketeer who has use for his particular ability, or he
may give up and sink into mediocrity. Fortunately,
there is still more of this real ability in America than
appears on the surface. Given an opportunity, it may
yet arise and save this nation from social disaster.
But, in sight, there is no obvious opportunity for it to
rise. At this time, if any should succeed in arising
above the level of mediocrity, there are plenty of blus-
tering bullies, like Joseph McCarthy for example, to
turn the wrath of the people against them, merely by
pointing the finger of suspicion a n d 'making loud
with the words.' If said person is not a good Ro-
man Catholic, he is in grave danger of being hauled
before some tribunal of the American Inquisition on
some trumped-up charge.

In presenting this dark picture, we are not attempt-
ing to be pessimistic ; rather, we are trying to make
it look brighter than it actually is. The urgency of
the situation demands a straight and clear exposure
of the reality that exists, not statements of subjective
hopes and despairs. Technocracy, in making its anal-
yses and projections, must deal with facts and proba-
bilities as they are. Our job is to size up the problem
and then work out the most favorable solution to it
in the light of the future welfare of this Continent
and its inhabitants. For better or for worse, Tech-
nocracy has taken on the welfare of North America
and its inhabitants as its only major concern. If
America is to become great, or even become a fit place
on which to dwell, it will depend entirely on whether
or not Technocracy succeeds with its program. No
other organization has an adequate social concept.

No other organization has the combination of stra-
tegic vision, integrity, technological know-what as well
as know-how, and s t u b b o r n devotion to a self-
appointed task as has Technocracy, through the guid-
ance of its founder and Director-in-Chief, Howard
Scott. Many times, it would have been much easier
from a personal advantage standpoint, to give up than
to go ahead ; for, the rewards have been few and the
disdain great. Few people are so lonely as those with
a great idea for advancing the general welfare. A
Public Enemy Number One, in the form of a notori-
ous bandit, is far more popular, gets far more pub-
licity, and is far more respected by the 'good people.'

Technocracy's social design w o u 1 d provide the
maximum of results on this Continent with a mini-
mum requirement of high intelligence. Once a gen-
eral strategy is laid out, it requires no more basic in-
telligence to organize an operation for the whole Con-
tinent than it does to organize an operation for a
small community. Thus, the number of people who
would, have to figure out what to do and how to do it
would not be many. Once the persons of superior
ability were cleansed of their Price System aspirations
and elevated to key functional jobs in the system,
there is no doubt that there are enough of them to
handle the functions involved. There are also plenty
of technically-trained .Americans to handle the purely
technical features of the Continental operation, once
these features were streamlined and standardized. It
requires less superior intelligence to operate a social

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system under conditions of abundance than it does
under conditions of scarcity, but this intelligence must
be more strategically placed. America's present de-
veloping impasse is not to be blamed entirely on the
decline in general intelligence; it is in part due to the
impossible strategy of trying to operate a potential
abundance under the rules of scarcity. This would be
a hopeless task for a population of mental giants, so
it is foolish to expect any worthwhile results from
such men as those in positions of leadership today.

There appear to be only two alternatives for North
America under the Price System — a nice big war, or
a big awful depression. There is no question as to
which of these our Price System leaders prefer ; the
only controversy is whether to have the nice big war
in Asia or in Europe.

Another Alternative

There is, of course, another alternative, but not un-
der the Price System. This is the transition into a
social system of abundance and freedom from toil.
The 'little' people — the great majority — are important
in this transition, mainly because they must give
their consent to having abundance provided for them.
Hut thev will not consent readily, for, to accept a new
situation and adjust to it requires more intellectual
courage than they are accustomed to display, even
though the new situation would be a great improve-
ment over what they have. ( )nce a Technate is in-
stalled and placed in operation, the intellectual strain
on the people will be much reduced. There will not
be the huge number of separate problems, requiring
numerous separate decisions, that now prevail under
the semi-anarchic conditions of the American Price
System. The biggest problem they will have is decid-
ing what to do with themselves; but. even here, su-
perior intellects will be available to devise simple
recreational interests and activities for them.

Once the Price System, with its strictures and its in-
verted incentives, is abolished from the Continent, there
is a good chance that a reversal will develop in the trend
of American intelligence — that it will begin to im-
prove instead of continue to decline. Ample knowl-
edge as to how the intelligence of the race can be im-
proved is available. It is not probable that any dras-
tic application of this knowledge will he required :
but. if the natural trend plus purposive education does
not produce significant results, more effective means
can be quietly and unobtrusively introduced.

( )nce the more intelligent people are not penalized

for having larger numbers of children, and are not so-
cially regimented in a manner favoring few children
or none, this category may begin to increase in num-
bers, especially if they are encouraged to do so with
educational enlightenment and social rewards. On the
other extreme, those of least intelligence must be pre-
vented from increasing their kind. The Technate will
not place a premium upon moronity, as does the Price
System ; rather, it will encourage the production of
the more intellectually agile and clear-thinking types.
Technocracy favors the planned arrival of the Fittest,
in contrast to the mere survival of the fittest, particu-
larly where the latter operates in an environment, as
in America today, where the fittest must have behavior
characteristics which most closely resemble those of
the louse.

There are many reasons why a Technate should be,
and must be, established on this Continent, but none
is more outstanding nor more urgent than the need for
salvaging enough intelligence from the existing popu-
lation to permit that population to survive. Technoc-
racy takes for granted that the present North Amer-
ican people are worth saving for North America; not
that we think they are in any way superior to other
people, but because they are the people who have be-
come established here and we are members of that
population. This is our Continent and our home, and
these are our people.

Therefore, without hope of personal reward, or
even favorable social recognition, Technocrats all over
the North American Continent are working relent-
lessly to promulgate a program of social operations
that will, among other things, halt the decline of su-
perior ability among the people and will eventually de-
velop a population of people befitting this, the greatest
Continent on earth.

— Wilton Ivic.

CLEVELAND SALUTES TECHNOLOGISTS

The 1951 meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science was held in Cleveland.
Over 10,000 of the nation's leading scientists and en-
gineers gathered there to present the latest develop-
ments in their field. Over one-thousand pieces of
•Technocracy Briefs, * with the title 'We Can Have
Abundance Now' were distributed to the scientists
attending. The message on the publication was: 'Sec-
tion 15, R, I). 8141, Technocracy Inc. salutes the
American Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence, 'fhe scientists and engineers of today will be the
Statesmen of Tomorrow. Think, North Americans.'

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Sacrificed For Profits

While government officials clamor for sacrifices from the American
people, business enterprise continues to destroy America's resources
for the sake of profits. Technocracy urges the conscription of the re-
sources of the Continent for the duration of the emergency, with serv-
ice from all, and profits to none.

IN NO OTHER geographical area has there been
as much wanton destruction of resources and de-
liberate withholding of efficiency as on the North
American Continent. While generations of Americans
have witnessed a rapid social and industrial develop-
ment from an agrarian to a high-energy civilization,
they have also observed a mode of operation which
ruthlessly ravaged the minerals and natural resources
of the land. World War II brought about a greater
drain on our non-replaceable resources than any other
period in the history of the United States. This has
been done by business enterprise for the sake of
profits with no consideration given to the conse-
quences that must inevitably follow. It is obvious
that, in order to survive, the Price System must con-
tinue to destroy our American heritage at an ever in-
creasing rate.

The inefficient use of our resources by business
methods has brought about a condition which con-
cerns the future welfare of the people of this Conti-
nent. It is agreed, even among mineral 'experts' that
the resource position of the Continental United States
has reached a critical stage. The seriousness of the
situation becomes more evident when we take into
consideration the fact that of the known resources in
the States we have already depleted 60 percent of the
copper, 78 percent of the bauxite, and 70 percent of
the chromium, etc. By now it must lie evident that
the problem cannot be solved by the mere issuance of
directives on the part of the government while 'free
enterprise' is allowed to continue to destroy America's
resources.

For our own social well-being we must become
aware of the indiscriminate utilization of the natural
and mineral resources by the present method of oper-
ation. It would be to the interest of society to con-
sume all non-replaceable resources in a sparing man-
ner. One example of the unwise use of a vital non-
metallic mineral is fluorspar, Hardly a ton of open

hearth steel is produced which does not account for
several pounds of this raw material. Without it we
could not sustain a high-energy mechanism over a
long period of time. Yet, with the understanding of
this fact, business interests have f o u n d ways and
means to use fluorspar needlessly in many products,
from ceramics to abrasives. In other words, business
is concerned with increased markets and greater prof-
its ; 'the public be damned.'

Inside the continental United States we receive
fluorspar from one relatively small area in southern
Illinois, and one in northeastern Kentucky. In this
region are the most heavily mined deposits in the
world. To repeat, fluorspar is one of our most crit-
ical non-metallic minerals, and government agencies
interested in stockpiling it along with other strategic
minerals and ores have estimated a known supply suf-
ficient for about 50 years at the current rate of con-
sumption. The easy days of 'spar' mining are over,
which means the energy costs of getting it out of the
ground are increasing. While business enterprise may
concern itself with increasing costs in production of
the mineral, it does not concern itself in the least
about where we shall get our fluorspar in the future.

Business Withholds Progress

liecause of interference by business expediency
many beneficial inventions and discoveries are with-
held from the people. It would not be good business
to put something on the market which would inter-
fere with an established lucrative racket. In order to
prevent such a thing from happening, the business in-
terests, along with other pressure groups, maintain
their advantageous position by controlling all avenues
of the market.

Not so long ago a research director of a lumber
mill in New Hampshire outlined methods for a low-
cost, high-quality synthetic lumber made with pressed
saw-dust and wood shavings bonded with a synthetic

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resin. This lumber could be produced from logs or
wood which lumber operators now consider to be
either inferior or completely unusable. In the pro-
duction of houses (could be used for prefabs) syn-
thetic lumber would require less man-hours of labor
to produce ; cost less than conventional lumber or ply-
wood ; and reduce the cost of handling because of its
lightness. It is easy to imagine to what extent the
lumber producers, construction contractors, labor or-
ganizations, and other affected interests would go to
prevent the use of this type of lumber, although it
would be to the public's welfare to use it.

The advantages of synthetic lumber are numerous.
It is generally agreed that in producing lumber for
buildings, furniture and other purposes, less than 30
percent of the wood in the log reaches the consumer,
and a considerable portion of this 30 percent is often
of inferior quality. Practically all of this tremendous
waste could be utilized in the production of synthetic
lumber.

We get some idea of the ruthlessness of Price Sys-
tem methods in the destruction of our resources when
we realize that only 50 percent of the trees cut in the
United States are being replaced by new plantings.
For the lack of watersheds, over four billion tons of
top soil are being washed away each year. The ap-
plication of the synthetic lumber process would be a
tremendous saving to our dwindling lumber supply.
Of course, a conservation program in accord with the
dynamics of nature would be the answer to the prob-
lem, but as long as business finds it profitable our re-
source supply will be depleted at an ever increasing
rate.

For years business enterprise has sabotaged the St.
Lawrence Seaway and Power Project. While there
are still those interests which oppose the project, the
pendulum has swung in the other direction. For in-
stance, Charles E. Wilson, defense 'mobilizer,' for-
merly against the project, declares :

'The St. Lawrence Seaway — in addition to its
undoubted general contribution to our transpor-
tation system — is essential if we are to put our
steel production — which is to say our entire mo-
bilization effort — on a secure and solid founda-
tion.'

The fact that the Mesabi and other ranges of the
United States cannot provide the steel industry with
a sufficient supply of high-grade iron ore at the pres-
ent rate of consumption, has brought home to business
interests that the economy cannot operate for an in-
definite time without an adequate supply of iron ore.

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Erosion destroyed this hillside orchard in a few short
years. From this picture we get some idea of the
ruthlessness of Price System methods in destroying
our natural resources. (Photo — Courtesy U. S. D. A.)

Because of the dwindling supply here, and the availa-
bility of huge deposits of iron in Labrador, business
has found it expedient now to favor the St. Lawrence
Seaway project as a means of maintaining its advan-
tageous position.

Although the construction of the seaway will bring
about more social change by lowering the energy costs
of transportation, opening new mines of iron ore, and
increasing power output, it does not mean the Amer-
ican people will derive the benefits from this under-
taking. Already political-business interests are fight-
ing over the spoils. While appearing before the House
Public Service Committee in Washington recently,
John E. Burton, chairman of the New York State
Power Authority, made the following statement :
'We would expect to do this (construction of

the seaway) in complete co-operation and joint

supervision with the Federal Power Commission

and the Army Engineers.

'In this manner the Federal government would

be relieved of all power project cost from the

start.'

hinder Mr. Burton's proposition the federal gov-
ernment would construct the power phase of the proj-
ect and turn it over to the State of New York, with
the state reimbursing the government over a period

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of years. This proposal would make it easier for the
private utilities to deal with the state politicians, to
prevent government competition with private interest,
and at the same time to provide Xew York State with
a political plum. In this way it will be possible for
private business to withhold the advantages that could
be derived from the St. Lawrence Seaway.

From a social point of view it is the concern of
every person on the North American Continent that
the natural resources be utilized with a minimum of
wastage and the maximum of efficiency. As we pre-
viously stated, this cannot be done under a Price Sys-
tem with the squandering of resources for maximum
profits. Therefore, it becomes the duty of every
American citizen to demand a method of social oper-
ation which will work in accord with the dynamics of
nature and for the general welfare of the citizens.

Technocracy presents the technological design ex-
pressly for the purpose of solving this intolerable situ-
ation, brought about by political-business expediency
and interference under the Price System. In a Tech-
nate the incentive for profits, as we know it today,
would no longer exist. The total resource-industrial
capacity of the Continent would be coordinated and
operated along technological lines to conserve non-
replaceable resources and develop the lowest energy
cost in the production and distribution of abundance.
This could be done in a Technate since there would
be no limitations to the scientific method of operat-
ing the social mechanism, outside of the physical re-
sources of the Continent. We are convinced that
Technocracy has the social design which deserves
further investigation by those Americans who are
concerned with the present as well as the future well-
being- of the North American Continent.

— Clyde Wilson.

ELIMINATES HUMAN TOIL

A new Pavement Cutter, designed to reduce to a
minimum the inconvenience caused by necessary street
openings for the repair of water mains or utility lines,
has now been developed by the Joy Manufacturing
Company. Two large wheels, carrying sulmet tung-
sten carbide tipped bits, saw parallel 2-inch slots in
the pavement, 18 in. to 54 in. apart. The strip of
paving between the slots can then be removed in
chunks with a backhoe or similar equipment. Prelim-
inary testing indicated that the Pavement Cutter will
triple the speed and halve the cost of pavement re-
moval. Another feature of the machine is its quiet

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operation as compared to the line drilling rigs and
paving breakers that it replaces.

The 15-ton machine is mounted on four solid rub-
ber tires and powered by a 75 H. P. gasoline engine.
The Pavement Cutter travels from job to job at a
speed of about 12 miles per hour, in direct gear-drive.
For feeding the machine while cutting, the hydraulic
drive is provided.

PAVEMENT CUTTER— The twin cutter saw is not
fazed by asphalt or 15 inches of concrete. It means
the pavement chewer will replace the pick and shovel,
anil the air hammer with engine-driven power. Why
not? Who wants to work anyway? (Photo — Courtesy
Joy Mfg. Co.)

The machine is said to be capable of slotting to
depths as great as 15 inches in almost any kind of
paving material. The machine can cut at speeds up
to 4 feet per minute, depending on thickness and hard-
ness of the paving material. The rate of advance
through 8-inch concrete with mesh reinforcement is 3
to 4 feet per minute. To allay dust and cool bits, a
250 gallon supply of water is carried on the Pave-
ment Cutter.

U. S. ECONOMY DEPENDS
ON WAR, ARNOLD SAYS

Americans are fighting a war for an unknown pur-
pose because this nation is running on a war economy
and can't stop, Judge Thurman Arnold said yesterday.

judge Arnold, former United States assistant at-
torney general, now a Washington lawyer, spoke at
the Community Church service in John Hancock
Hall.

"We just don't know what it would do or what
would happen if war should end.

"Our production system has gotten ahead of our
ability to distribute goods. The only way we can keep
up with production is to wage war — a method of dis-
tributing goods when there's no other market," he
-aid.

—Boston "Globe,'' March 5, 1951.
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OPERATION ORANGE SHOW

The Gray Fleet Committee of Regional Divisions
11833-11834 has planned a program of symbolization
for the spring and summer months. The first activity
was Operation Orange Show to San Bernardino on
March 18. Meeting at the Headquarters of Section
6, R. D. 11834 on Atlantic Boulevard in Los Angeles,
the members registered, visited, and had coffee and
doughnuts between 8:00 and 8:30 A. M. After a
short orientation talk in which the plans of the day
were outlined, the cars left in groups of five.

Thirty miles out, in Ontario, all units met and con-
tinued the motorcade for the remaining eighteen miles
to the Section Headquarters in Colton. After a de-

licious lunch prepared and served by the members of
the Section, the Los Angeles group went on to the
Orange Show.. Meeting at the Section late in the
afternoon to motorcade home in a group, the Los An-
geles Technocrats were enthusiastic about the success
of the motorcade as well as the enjoyment of the day.

MEETING THE EMERGENCY

Realizing that the declaration of a national emerg-
ency by our President has made it mandatory for
Technocrats to apprise the general public of Technoc-
racy's program of Total Conscription, members of
Section 1, R. D. 12247, Everett, Wash., have by this

One of the outstanding events
of the year, the Gray Fleet
units and Motorcycle Corps
symbolization tactics to the
Orange Show in San Bernar-
dino. Pictured is a portion
of the Los Angeles Gray
Fleet, lined up in motorcade
formation while on its way
to observe and participate in
the Orange Show activities.
(Techphotos by Phebus).

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One of Calgary's Official Gray Cars with Sound Unit
in front of the Ice Palace at the Banff Winter Car-
nival.

time completed their goal of distributing 15,000 'Tech-
nocracy Briefs,' explaining the program to the citizens
in their immediate vicinity. At the January Member-
ship meeting the Members pledged the cost of the

project and volunteered man-hours that were required
to complete it.

WINNIPEG STARTS FARAD GROUP

In spite of high water that forced the evacuation
of the Section Headquarters for several months in
1950, the Winnipeg Section has an excellent record
of functions accomplished. Included in the Section's
accomplishments are thirty-two Sunday evening film
shows, with the attendance and literature sales being
very high ; regular public meetings addressed by local
and outside Authorized Speakers ; literature with ac-
companying letter mailed to contacts who have signed
Expression-of-Interest cards; and over seven-hundred
special invitations sent to homes, which has resulted
in increased attendance at the showing of the educa-
tional films. At present the Section is forming a
Youth Group.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS— Pictured above is the Board of Governors of Section 2, R. D. 11833, Los Angeles, se-
lected by members at the annual membership meeting held in January. Front row (left to right), Ernest Crook,
Marjorie Clouse, Ethel Crook, Hilda Bell, Jessie Barnes, and Donald Clouse. Back row, James Barnes, William
Allen, Lester Mull, William Winchester, and John Shaw. The Board is to be commended as one of the most func-
tional in the Southwest region. — (Techphoto by Phebus).

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BANFF WINTER CARNIVAL

Through the efforts of a Technocrat, Mr. J. D. An-
derson, of Banff, Alberta, Can., Technocracy's Sound
Unit played a leading role in lianff's Annual Winter
Carnival. The big Kaiser sedan, with sound unit
mounted, was freshly painted and sported a new car-
top sign urging the governments of the United States
and Canada to adopt Technocracy's blueprint of the
Total Conscription of Men, Machines, Materiel, and
Money, with service from all and profits to none.

The Gray Fleet Committee of Regional Divisions
11833-11834 is shown in session drawing np plans for
the spring and summer operations. The Committee
has gained excellent results in symbolizing the Or-
ganization by its efficient method of operation. Tech-
photo by Fulton).

The Unit was driven to Banff by two Technocrats,
Ben Standell and M. Klym of Calgary. A friend ac-
companying them was a valuable aid in the distribu-
tion of 'Briefs.' Approximately 500 were distributed
along the route, during our short two day trip.

The Sound Unit was in the center of the parade
and, consequently, was seen by all. The car-top signs
were closely scrutinized along the route, and favor-
able comments were heard. The Unit was used prin-
cipally in the announcement of all sports and games,
and for calling the square dances.

We received favorable mention through our 'mikes'
from the carnival officials, thanking Technocracy for
the use of its sound equipment in helping Banff make
a success of its annual big event. The only adverse
comment was by a high official who wanted the Total

Member Ben Standell, of Calgary, is pictured in front
of Gray Fleet Unit with mountain range in the back-
ground.

Conscription signs covered, as he did not approve of
them. When asked why, he replied that the Canadian
Pacific Railroad did not like them in their advertising-
folders. The Unit was in the center of activity and
the CPR could not help but photograph it. When re-
quested to cover the signs we refused because the
message of Total Conscription is vital to every North
American.

As the crowd watched the parade, phamphlets were
distributed, and a wonderful job of symbolization
was done.

■ — Marjoric Clous e.

The members of the Penticton (B. C.) Section are partici-
pating in a regular Study Class held every week. One of
the purposes of the Study Class, which uses Technocracy's
Study Course as a text, is to present an overall view of
the social problems on this Continent, and to prepare for
an orderly change in the future. Such a course is given
nowhere outside of the Organization.

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The Mandate of Survival

THE PROBLEM of United States and the Continent of North
America is here and now on this Continent of North America. It is
here in our own backyard, not 12,000 miles around the globe. United
States is a world power but how long will she continue to be a world
power if she sacrifices and squanders the national heritage of her
resources in capturing the international profits of American private
business around the world, while she sabotages the common good
and the general welfare of 200 million North Americans at home?

—HOWARD SCOTT, Director-in-Chief,
TECHNOCRACY INC.

— SECTION STAMP —